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Author,speaker,therapist,coach & humanitarian has lived a life that is a testament to the triumph of the human spirit, which is brilliantly captured in her best-selling memoir, Pursuit of Light, An Extraordinary Journey.For over thirty years Sandy has helped & inspired thousands of people to move beyond their personal challenges in order to explore & embrace the possibilities in their own lives. She has spoken at venues from Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, New York, to Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. She is a regular contributor to Global Woman Magazine and has been featured on numerous television shows including a special segment on her life and work on NBC's Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and a nationally televised documentary. Sandy, with her compelling compassion, wit & wisdom, offers a pathway out of darkness into light with warmth& richness. She is a dynamic, inspirational woman who suffered such severe and near-fatal abuse as a child that she was drawn so deeply into the dark that she found the light. With her empowering insights and natural good-humor, Sandy offers the profound lessons of her personal journey and how they apply equally to people from all walks of life and in all circumstances. Along the road to her own healing, she developed seminal techniques that enabled her not only to overcome, but also literally gain strength from these experiences. She has devoted her life to helping adults and children recognize that they are loved, and that no matter what happened yesterday it is insignificant to what lies within the core of one's being today. Now Sandy has memorialized her innovative work and techniques in Pursuit of Light, An Extraordinary Journey, an entertaining, soul-stirring, master trope in the art of healing that shares her true-life story of how she came to find the presence of Light within her, and the "how to's" of choice-how you, too, can look at your life from a new perspective.
Date / Time: 7/25/2008 10:18 PM UTC
© Sandy Brewer 2008
THE EYES OF LOVE
By Sandy Brewer
Pursuit Of Light
“Love is already here
Can’t you feel Its Presence?
It’s already here…”
I’ve more than doubled my age since I first sat in a New Thought Church singing this little ditty. I was still a wounded thirty-something – still struggling to find a way to live with an inner pain from which I had no surcease. It was a pain that was caused by years of true trauma, cruelty, and outrageous abuse. A pain that encompassed me and appeared to block my Light. I sat in that pew with an aching heart, never dreaming that in ten years I would be a featured speaker in that same church, standing at the pulpit teaching the Divine Spirit within and the promise of all that we can become.
But on that Sunday so many years ago, joy and possibilities were less than a distant potential. I wasn’t looking for the Light. All I was seeking was a way to live with the pain.
Of course, that meant that pain was my story. Sorrow and suffering had inadvertently become my gods, for, not knowing any other way, I had given them all the power. I had identified myself as that which I had experienced. I had given the cloak of a dark past the right to name me. I listened to the teachings of Ernest Holmes that morning, and it inspired me to pursue his teachings as well as those of Emerson, Quimby, Brooks, and so many more.
And I discovered what we know. That God is not an old white man with a beard. He’s not even a “He” or a “She.” God is the Source that joins us in an interactive dance; the womb within which we all exist and manifest; the Supreme Being that is within us, and that “within” is not a spot in my body. Spirit is beyond time and space, yet presents Itself in realms of time and space. I learned what at that point in my life was the most powerful, life-changing awareness: life is not happenstance, I chose. Oh, I didn’t choose
to be raped and tortured – to almost die more than once as result of such aberrant cruelty. Nobody does. But, as a spiritual being, with the blessing of the Divine, I chose a challenging journey that would practically dare me to reach for something greater. To reach for Truth, to know that the dark is a part of the Light, but that no thing, no circumstance and no one can supersede that which we are. “I am one with a Goodness that has no opposite. Nothing stands between me and that Good, for God and I are one. All my needs are met.”
This healing didn’t come overnight, not even with the wonderful principles of New Thought. But with practice, intention, and commitment it did come.
Yet echoes lingered. One evening I looked in the mirror and saw the reflection of my own eyes. I thought about the quantum field and, knowing that all form begins as a frequency, the translucent nature of all that is. And I thought about God. How it expresses Itself through the planets and stars, trees and flowers, light and dark, puppies and butterflies. And us. I looked into the eyes in the mirror and realized these are not just Sandy’s eyes, they are the eyes of God. What if I looked at me the way I believe God does – if I understood that God uses my eyes, our eyes, as part of the expression of Itself? What if I beheld me, and everyone, through the eyes of Love?
I looked in the mirror again, saw the softness of the reflection of the Divine looking upon Its own, and felt the lingering wafts of darkness fall away.
And then I remembered the little song:
“Love is (and, even in the darkest moments, always has been) already here
It’s already here...”
Author of Best-Selling Memoir
Pursuit of Light, An Extraordinary Journey.
Sandy Brewer is an author, speaker and counselor with
over thirty years experience. Her work has been
featured on NBC’s Nightly News with Tom Brokaw
and in a nationally televised documentary. She will
be a speaker at the INTA Conference in July.
To learn more about Sandy Brewer’s Journey and watch her videos and listen to her interviews visit her website: www.pursuitoflight.com. You can also purchase Pursuit of Light An Extraordinary Journey in Hardcover, Audio and E book thru the website.
If you would like Sandy to appear or speak at your event or for your business or organization, please contact Kelly Van Eck at Kelly@PeachTreeHouse.com or 760-230-8124. Media please contact Antoinette Kuritz at Strategies, 858-467-1978, for booking information.